These
photos of decorated masks for a contest at work featuring Mardi Gras. I
don't remember who won but I'd like to think it was me because my mask
was the most fabulous ones.
Audio: Two loop tracks that I
stacked, "Paradise" and "Part Hay" by SideTrax for which I acquired the
license through Humble Bundle via the Cinematic Soundwaves - The Sequel
bundle.
These
are the photos that I took of the meals we had at Ticoz Resto-Bar. This
was likely the first time I went to this restaurant because, like most
of my photos of restaurant food, I usually take photos at least the
first time I visit. The food at this place was always tasty and went to
it quite a few times when I lived closer to the area. A great place when
looking for distinctive Latin food. Perhaps their name changed at some
point as an online search produces the name Ticoz Latin Kitchen
interchangeably and it closed in 2017.
Amalgam Creative Arts ========================= A Blockbuster Fantasy =========================
A track created by auto arranging sound loops made on July 11, 2024 that had blockbuster movie fantasy feel.
The visual for this track was created using a photo of Kirby from No Tan Diario Chronicles from perhaps 25+ years ago made in a dark room using a black light that resulted in a blue hue photo when taken by a photographer/artist we knew at the time. The image was used on their personal socials for several years and called it Kirby Blue. For the purposes of this visual we played with the opacity and colorized it with transitions about every fifteen seconds. We added a photo of a rose that we took in 2018 that was passed through an EyeEM filter. We then interlaced an enlarged and opacity reduced photo that we took of the 2016 Phoenix Film Festival poster. Fun Fact: We volunteered at that festival as part of the silent auction.
Do you like that we include the details of the visual?
Hope you enjoy it and feel free to use it on your videos but please link or reference this channel.
Volunteering at St Mary's Food Bank ========================= Photos & video for this were taken on February 26, 2011. =========================
This is a collage of the photos and videos that I took when we volunteered at St. Mary's Food Bank in Phoenix. During our time there we sorted close to 10,000 lbs of food in about 3 hours. I'd originally blogged about it: Sorting it out... → https://elkirbster.blogspot.com/2011/03/sorting-it-out.html
During my time at Target Tempe HQ we often volunteered at St. Mary's Food Bank. I didn't take photos every time but did this time as well as back in 2008.
Amalgam Creative Arts ========================= A Grimey World =========================
A track created by auto arranging sound loops made on July 11, 2024 that made us feel we were in a dirty rusty world.
For the visual on this track, we stacked various different images and photos we had of various different projects, added some shapes, and edited some of the colors, transitions, and opacity to give it a bit of a "grimey" feel to the audio.
Hope you enjoy it and feel free to use it on your videos but please link or reference this channel.
The short story: The Witches Tarot by Ellen Cannon Reed & Martin Cannon was my first set of Tarot cards.
The
longer story: It was sometime in 1998 when I had my first Tarot
Reading. My reading was done with the Rider Waite Tarot deck, probably
one of the most recognized and popular decks.
Shortly after,
perhaps a year or more, I decided to get my own deck and went looking
for one that was uniquely different and spoke to me. The search brought
me to The Witches Tarot by Ellen Cannon Reed and Illustrated by Martin
Cannon. The seventh printing from 1998. Truth be told it wasn't until
now that I decided to share this story that I paid attention to the
origins of the deck because that piece didn't matter to me during my
search. What mattered is that the cards felt natural when using them and
that the illustrations evoked what a set of Tarot cards should.
An
online search appears to indicate that the first printing was in 1989
and that Reed wrote a book to go with the deck called The Witches Tarot.
In it, she discusses the meanings of the cards, the Qabalistic Tree of
Life, pathworking and other ways to use the Witches Tarot. For me the
set of cards is sufficient but perhaps the book might be in my future.
Since
then I've acquired a few additional decks that have called me for
different reasons which I may share in the future. The Witches Tarot is
still one I reference most.
My suggestion for your first set of
Tarot cards would be to choose one that calls to you and not by a
particular deck's popularity or history.
Audio: "Mystic Thoughts" from Joel R. Steudler's Epic Royalty Free Music Collection Vol 2 for which I acquired the license.
The short story: The Witches Tarot by Ellen Cannon Reed & Martin Cannon was my first set of Tarot cards.
The longer story: It was sometime in 1998 when I had my first Tarot Reading. My reading was done with the Rider Waite Tarot deck, probably one of the most recognized and popular decks.
Shortly after, perhaps a year or more, I decided to get my own deck and went looking for one that was uniquely different and spoke to me. The search brought me to The Witches Tarot by Ellen Cannon Reed and Illustrated by Martin Cannon. The seventh printing from 1998. Truth be told it wasn't until now that I decided to share this story that I paid attention to the origins of the deck because that piece didn't matter to me during my search. What mattered is that the cards felt natural when using them and that the illustrations evoked what a set of Tarot cards should.
An online search appears to indicate that the first printing was in 1989 and that Reed wrote a book to go with the deck called The Witches Tarot. In it, she discusses the meanings of the cards, the Qabalistic Tree of Life, pathworking and other ways to use the Witches Tarot. For me the set of cards is sufficient but perhaps the book might be in my future.
Since then I've acquired a few additional decks that have called me for different reasons which I may share in the future. The Witches Tarot is still one I reference most.
My suggestion for your first set of Tarot cards would be to choose one that calls to you and not by a particular deck's popularity or history.
Audio: "Mystic Thoughts" from Joel R. Steudler's Epic Royalty Free Music Collection Vol 2 for which I acquired the license.
In the newspaper! ========================= From February 14, 2011 =========================
A
local news paper took a photo of myself and two friends while we were
pedal boating during the Regional Unity Walk. They then used that photo
in their article about the water in the lake not being fit for body
contact. Regional Unity Walk 2011 → https://youtu.be/otpC5_p_McQ
I had shared this as part of the video: This was Feb 2011! → https://youtu.be/xM1pGPxNEmI
but thought this really should be a Paper Trails mini vid/post. Do you
have clippings of when your photo used for a news article?
This was Feb 2011! ========================= From February 9-26, 2011 =========================
This is a collection of photos from February 9th through February 26th from 2011.
00:00 This was Feb 2011!
00:01 February 9th: The bug in the drink from dinner at Macayo's Mexican Food.
00:03 February 14th: Valentine's Day Goodies from work.
00:07 February 14th: My Valentine's Day that I received from Armandzraven about a week prior to actual V-day.
00:10 February 14th: In the Newspaper. A local news paper took a photo of myself and two friends while we were pedal boating during the Regional Unity Walk. They then used that photo in their article about the water in the lake not being fit for body contact. Regional Unity Walk 2011 → https://youtu.be/otpC5_p_McQ
00:15 February 19th: Dinner at Kabab. This may have been the first time we went to this restaurant. We would find ourselves going to it often until it closed. After dinner the moon looked fantastic, may have been full, so took a few photos of it.
00:28 February 26th: We were headed to dinner and there had been a car accident. Snapped a quick photo of on of the vehicles that had been involved.
00:31 February 26th: Dinner at Pan Asia. This might be a bit familiar as I've previously shared photos of various times a meal was enjoyed at tis restaurant. This would be the last time we would go to it because as you can see from the images, they brought out a dish on a hot plate that sizzled all over not just the table and plates but also the then work shirt of Armandzaraven. Dinner at Pan Asia! | With Aaron and Jerry ~ November 12, 2008 → https://youtu.be/PSMQ7qp_Ux8 Dinner at Pan Asia! - 03 October 2009 → https://youtu.be/PPY7K7-n4FA Wine, dinners, and more! → https://youtu.be/mWmG95v01TY at minute seven.
The restaurant no longer exists. It was a sushi Chinese fusion restaurant located in the South Phoenix area at 2485 E Baseline Rd, Phoenix, AZ 85042
Audio: "Ice Cream" by Joey Pecoraro from the YouTube audio library.
Regional Unity Walk 2011 ========================= From February 5, 2011 =========================
This
is a compilation of the photos and videos that I took during the
Regional Unity Walk from 2011. After the walk there was a cultural
celebration. The event took place by the Tempe Beach Park. We then went
to try out the pedal boats. For this event I went with Hannah and
Enedina.
About
the Regional Unity Walk: In celebration of unity and community,
residents from Chandler, Gilbert, Guadalupe, Mesa, Phoenix, and Tempe
gather each year at Tempe Town Lake to celebrate the annual Regional
Unity Walk.
Amalgam Creative Arts ========================= Intro of the New Earth =========================
A track created by auto arranging sound loops made in July 11, 2024. The names we choose for the majority of our tracks are what they made us think or feel at the time with an occasional reference to the types of loops used.
Three images from various times passed through filters and some randomly placed spheres all with reduced opacity to give the effect you see here. Added some slight animations and transitions to have a little fun movement without taking away from enjoying the track.
Hope you enjoy it and feel free to use it on your videos but please link or reference this channel.
A track created by auto arranging sound loops. This one gave us an electrical fantasy world vibe hence the name.
This one was originally created on July 11, 2024.
Because our audio tracks are created solely so we may use our own sounds for the rest of our videos, when we share them on their own and in their entirety, we do so in order to enjoy it without other distractions. To accomplish this we use do so by limiting the amount of visuals for them.
For this one we used the image that was cut from a photo taken in July 2021 of the Wings by Collette Miller that at the time was located where the Andaz West Hollywood - A Concept by Hyatt and Terrace and Riot House Restaurant + Bar meet at an entrance/exit wall and colorized it using various colors to five it an electrical feel. We broke the various colorizations throughout as well as reduced the opacity. To this we imposed a photo we took in 2005 of a desert in Arizona and reduced its opacity to get just a small glimpse of it. We wanted a bit of movement which brought us to add a short video we took of a sunflower we grew in 2013. We also reduced its opacity and added at different speeds throughout. Overall we believe it adds to the vibe of the audio without distracting too much from it. All this to avoid using an AI generated visual.
We hope you enjoy it and feel free to use it on your videos but please link or reference this channel.
Wine, dinners, and more! ========================= From January 13 - February 3, 2011 =========================
This is a collection of photos from January 13th through February 3rd from 2011.
00:00 Wine, dinners, and more!
00:01 January 13th: Photos of wine that Deb gave me a week or so ago. Deb was a co-worker at my then place of employment.
00:07
January 21st: Dinner at Pan Asia in Phoenix. This might seem familiar
as I've previously posted photo videos of other times we've been here. Dinner at Pan Asia! | With Aaron and Jerry ~ November 12, 2008 → https://youtu.be/PSMQ7qp_Ux8 Dinner at Pan Asia! - 03 October 2009 → https://youtu.be/PPY7K7-n4FA
The
restaurant no longer exists. It was a sushi Chinese fusion restaurant
located in the South Phoenix area at 2485 E Baseline Rd, Phoenix, AZ
85042.
00:33 January 22nd: Dinner at La Piñata restaurant in
Phoenix. If I remember correctly this was the first time we had dinner
at this location. It opened in 1969. During this visit they were still
located at their original location as it appears that since covid they
are at a new location. You can check out their website → https://www.lapinatarestaurantaz.com/ and a video from a local TV Station from a few years ago. → https://youtu.be/zbqzCcfvwCs
January 29th: 01:07 Photos of Armandzraven's dessert.
01:17 A photo of Sammy
01:20 Photos of Dinner at Lao Ching Hing in Phoenix. This was located at the now extinct Chinese Cultural Center.
01:35 Photo of the store front of the Ranch Market at the Chinese Cultural Center in Phoenix.
Past videos from the Chinese Cultural Center Visiting the Chinese Cultural Center - 19 June 2007 → https://youtu.be/wyswUbwVu1k Family, Fun, and Fiesta! ~ Ma & Tia Visit ~ Chinese Cultural Center! → https://youtu.be/wf9FwqIsPNU
01:38 January 31st: Photos of driving to work traffic.
01:42 February 1st: A photo of a Starbucks drive thru.
01:47 February 3rd: Photos of a Lin's Buffet in Phoenix that recently opened.
About
the photos: Some of these photos were taken with the iPod Touch 4th
Generation that I had received as a gift the Xmas season and other with a
Sony Cyber-Shot camera that I had at the time. The iPod Touch took okay
photos as long as there was proper lighting. The Sony Cyber-Shot took
better overall quality photos.
Audio: "As We Go" by The 126ers from the YouTube audio library.
Maxine 2009-2010 Planner ========================= From January 11, 2011 =========================
For
as long as I can remember I've enjoyed having a physical paper planner
and have varied in designs and sized. For 2009 and 2010 I had a simple
foldable planner with Maxine on the cover. As I was getting ready to
discard it, for remembrance, and as part of
#FotosDeCosasEliminadasParaRecordarlas I took a photo of it and a few of
the inside guides which came out a little blurry.
Created by
John Wagner in 1986, the Maxine cartoons are even more relevant today.
In a time where stress and negativity can sometimes take over our daily
lives, laughing and having fun are imperative and the Maxine cartoons
bring out that joy.
Life is what you make it. I make it unbearable for as many as possible. - Maxine
Do you still use a physical planner?
Audio: "As We Go" by The 126ers from the YouTube audio library.
War of the Vikings ========================= From October 07, 2026 ========================
War of the Vikings is a game that I acquired in 2016 via the Humble Gamepedia Online Multiplayer Bundle.
Several
months ago I finally installed it in an attempt to play it only to find
out that it is no longer available. Loosing the ability to play a game
happens to me occasionally because it can take me a while before
actually deciding to play them. Per the info found online War of the
Vikings was removed from sale January 16, 2017 wit the server shutdown
on February 28, 2017.
On October 7, 2026 I decided to just capture a bit of the menu as remembrance.
On
this video I screen captured the game menu where I select Play Online
that shows nothing available. I then proceed to select the tutorial. The
tutorial is the only thing that worked to get an idea of the game. I
captured here just a bit of that. I decided to include the release
trailer after this.
Do you ever miss opportunities to play games? Did you ever play this game?
This is collage of photos taken in 2011 from January 7th to the 11th.
00:00 Snacks and drinks from 7 to Eleven!
00:01
January 7th: Snacks from the Cactus Café. The Cactus Café was the name
of the cafeteria inside the building of my then place of employment. It
was a great place to grab breakfast or lunch. I had many fantastic
meals from them while their. I even worked with them to create a special
menu during Native American Heritage Month for a couple of years. Great
times until eventually it was transitioned into a prepackaged food area
with a kiosk. Unfortunately I don't think I ever took any photos of
actual meals.
00:06 January 8th: Jell-o shot at Nez House and then a photo of a large light fixture at the Harrah's Ak Chin Casino.
00:10 January 9th: A photo of the coffee I was about to brew.
00:13
January 11th: A photo of the inside of a Krispy Kreme that had recently
opened and image of their logo that I took a screenshot of at the time.
The logo a little pixelated.
Audio: "Mall Memories" from Joel R. Steudler's Epic Royalty Free Music Collection Vol 2 for which I acquired the license.
Just
some photos of a mix of cookies that, if I remember correctly, we
received as a gift for the holidays. On this day we opened them and
enjoyed them during the week. They were delicious.
Audio: "wake" by Rick Steel from the YouTube audio library.
If
you watched my Holidays 2010! video → https://youtu.be/ZBqRuI2m_94 you
may have seen the last three photos were of getting ready to celebrate
the New Year with some adult beverages. The drinks consisted of Jose
Cuervo Margaritas. shots, and Champagne. These are the photos of said
beverages that I took just before we toasted in the new year. Later that
day we made a lentil soup to continue the celebration.
Holidays 2010! ========================= From December 17 - 31, 2010 =========================
Decided
to make this compilation video from the photos I took during the last
part of December 2010 because for some reason I didn't take as many
photos this particular season.
00:00 Holidays 2010!
00:01
December 17th: The results of a white elephant gift that I wrapped.
The contents were a furnace filter and a picture frame.
00:15 December 24th: The sign for Golden Buddha where we had Xmas Eve dinner. 00:20 December 24th: Entrance to 99 Cents Only Stores and the guard that didn't let me go in because I had my murse.
00:23
December 25th: Photos of a Xmas Holiday Card from Kohl's. My original
intention was to take a photo or scan every card received during the
holiday season but only did this one. Perhaps sometime in the future
I'll do that for the ones I still have from this and various other
years.
I received an iPod touch 4th generation as a gift. Fun Fact: To this day it is the only Apple handheld device I've ever had.
00:30 December 25th: The Invisible Shield Dry that I could not get to stay on properly, without bubbles, on the iPod Touch.
00:33 December 26th: Lifeworks Metallic Shield Case that I got for the iPod Touch 4th generation.
00:35
December 27th: Korean Wine in my fridge. These are the first photo and
video I took with the iPod Touch 4th gen. I had previously uploaded the
video just as is. Korean wine in my fridge - 27 December 2010 → https://youtube.com/shorts/RAWWUotNPXg
00:53
December 28th: Photo of a crockpot recipe. I don't remember if I made
it as listed or if I substituted the beef for pork. In either case it's a
simple recipe. The recipe is from a book of crockpot recipes that I
received as a gift.
00:58 December 31st: I Cut myself with a dollar store vase that broke as I was hand washing it. 01:03
December 31st: Ready for tonight. The photos of the Ninja Professional
blender that we got for the holidays. Pictured here ready to use it to
make our New Year's Eve/Day celebration drinks.
Hope you enjoyed this brief view into my 2010 Holidays season!
This
is a video compilation made from the photos and video of all the
entries for the Bullseye, The Target Dog, Dress-Up Contest from 2010
that took place at my then place of employment. Here on YouTube, I'd
previously shared just the video that I took which didn't include all
the entries because the battery of my camera had run out. Thankfully, I
had taken photos of all of them. The photos themselves were previously
only shared on my Facebook.
For
this contest, teams received a Bullseye to dress up as they sit fit for
the holiday season. As you can see by the photos and video, the teams
were quite curative and some even adventurous in their reimagining of
what Bullseye got to wear. Unclear who won as I didn't keep that info.
Have you ever had a Plushie Dress Up Contest?
Audio:
"Bells" by SideTrax from the Arpeggios music pack 29 for which I
acquired the license through Humble Bundle via the Cinematic Soundwaves -
The Sequel bundle and "Christmas Village" by Aaron Kenny from the
YouTube audio library. I also added "Jingle Bells" sound effect from the
YouTube audio library sprinkled throughout. At the end is the short
video and left its sound as captured but with some of the jingle bells
overlapping.
I'd originally only shared the card pull photo on other socials.
The original post description: Today's #Tarot card is the Six of Wands from The Witches Tarot by Ellen Cannon Reed and Martin Cannon.
Illumination,
realization of bigger things, teaching, spiritual growth, humility,
realization that there is a pattern to the universe. This often comes
after an extremely difficult and trying period in life.
========================= From December 14, 2009 =========================
This
is the promotional video received on Monday, December 14, 2009 with the
subject, "Target presents Nuestra Navidad on Univsion: Dec 17 and Dec
25." This was part of the multicultural marketing by Target at the time
with the TV special to be broadcast in Spanish at 9 p.m. CT Thursday,
Dec. 17, on Univision. It would be rebroadcasted at 10 a.m. CT on
Christmas Day.
The program featured a visit to the White House
for an interview with President Obama and longtime Target partner Gloria
Estefan.
Also showcased was P.S. 155 in East Harlem New York,
where Target and local team members had recently renovated the library -
donating thousands of books and creating an inspiring space for kids to
learn, thrive and grow. The segment included interviews with Principal
Lillian Ortiz, the school librarian and some very happy students, as
well as holiday music performances by David Archuleta and Latin
entertainer PeeWee.
The broadcast also included performances by
various artists as well as a look at singer/songwriter Luis Fonsi's
visit to Target House, a free home-away-from-home for families receiving
long-term treatment at St. Jude Children's Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.
As
the sole sponsor of the program, Target ran their Spanish-language
holiday TV spots, as well as their Dream in Color spot celebrating
Hispanic heritage that featured Principal Lillian Ortiz and Luis Fonsi,
as well as actress Elizabeth Pena and racecar driver Juan Pablo Montoya
of the Target Racing Team.
This video may be a bit pixelated
since I enlarged it to fit. Additionally, although I didn't record the
program itself, you may be able to find some of the performances here on
YouTube and likely somewhere out through the innerwebs.
I
remember watching most of the program when it aired, mostly to watch
Thalia's holiday song performance but didn't record any of it. The video
is a little pixelated because I enlarged it.
The XIV - Grace from the Mystical Cats Tarot Deck was the card drawn on January 12th of 2023.
The
card was upside-down meaning Disunion, lack of harmony. Competing
interests, unfortunate combinations or alliances. Frustration,
impatience.
However although it may seem like you are stalled,
things really proceeding toward their proper ends and will arrive in
their proper times.
- I'd originally only shared the card pull
photo on other socials. For this video version I used CapCut to add a
bit of flair to the photo and added the title, date, and the reading. I
was originally just going to use it as is but decided that I first
wanted a clear view of the card as close to the original share/post on
other socials. This brought me to use my trusty old Camtasia 9 to put it
all together.
What you see on this short video for the first
several seconds is the card with just a tad of enhancements via Camtasia
9 then continue on to the CapCut version. All in all I think it came
out pretty neat.
Although on occasion I do play with
enhancements for videos/photos, particularly for my Amalgam Creative
Arts channel, I most often choose none to small amounts of enhancements
for No Tan Diario Chronicles. Do you like adding more or less
enhancements for videos/photos?
Audio: "Veracruz" by Quincas Moreiras from the YouTube audio library.
These
are photos of the volunteer event where a team of volunteers from work
got together to help setup one of the many Christmas trees that are set
up around the Phoenix Children's' Hospital. All the photos were taken
with my camera except the last one that one of the volunteers shared.
The tree we decorated we donated and decorated was located in one of the waiting room areas.
Audio:
"Lewes" by SideTrax from the Sunrise music pack 29 for which I acquired
the license through Humble Bundle via the Cinematic Soundwaves - The
Sequel bundle.
These are photos that I took on the first day of a series of dates where volunteers would create ornaments that would then adorn one of the many holiday trees that the Phoenix Children's Hospital places throughout their facility. Volunteers had from November 30th through December 2nd to assemble ornaments from craft kits.
Here is a video from photos I took from two work celebrations.
The
first was the launch of the new mission for the department I was
working in at the time. The new mission statement was, "Create guest
loyalty and enhance financial performance through a branded dispute
experience." We celebrated with cakes that we called Mission Momentum
Cake. Here you see the photos i took of the cakes and of the printed and
laminated mission statement.
The second was me celebrating ten
year anniversary working at Target. The photos I took of the
acknowledgement. The congratulations note was signed by the HR team, the
acknowledgement by then Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel, and also included a
$50 Target GiftCard.
As usual when I went to a new to me restaurant I like to take photos. These are the photos I took of what I believe was the first time I enjoyed a delicious meal at Mrs. White's Golden Rule Cafe in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. For this first visit we of course had to try the famous fried chicken and pork chop.
From their site → https://www.mrswhitescafe.com/ : Mrs. Whites Cafe. A family-run business since its inception in 1964. We take great pride in serving classic soul food in a cozy, home-style atmosphere. Our recipes have been handed down through generations, allowing us to provide our customers with a truly unique and authentic experience. Come and enjoy a delicious meal at Mrs. White's Golden Rule Cafe.
You should definitely visit if you ever find yourself in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
Before,
during, and after my time with the TFST Diversity Council—which would
undergo several name changes in the future, including Tempe Diversity
Council, Tempe Diversity & Inclusion Council, Tempe Inclusion
Council, and others—there were many brown bags (talks, presentations,
and the like) about different diversity, equity, and inclusion topics.
I
attended many brown bags throughout the years and helped coordinate
and/or assist on a few of them. What you see on this video is the
tri-fold takeaway that I put together for the A GLBT Brown Bag that took
place on November 02, 2010.
*Please note that any of the referenced resources/organizations may no longer be accurate or in existence.
On
the 30th of October from the year 2010, I participated in the 2010 JDRF
Walk to Cure Diabetes that was held at the Tempe Town Lake. I helped as
part of #TargetVolunteers in selling tickets for a raffle the event
organizers were doing. If I remember correctly, participants could buy a
string of tickets stretching their entire height for a set price. I
believe we also got to participate in the walk itself.
Because I
didn't take any photos of the event, I made this video of photos from
the screen capture of the email update of info for the volunteer event,
the map of the event, the map of where parking was available, and a
photo I took of the t-shirt we received.
The
JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes from 2008, took place on November 1st of the
same year. Although I wasn't able to the walk itself, I did volunteer
the Sunday prior to the event to help put together packs for the event. I
didn't previously create a video about this because I didn't take any
photos during the volunteer event.
The only thing I had was a
screen capture of the email we received from the event organizer. I then
went back to my blog and found that I had posted a brief recap of
various events from September through October of 2008 where I included a
few sentences about this event.
Original blog post: Quick recap
of October 2008... and September... →
https://elkirbster.blogspot.com/2008/11/quick-recap-of-october-2008-and.html
Because
No Tan Diario Chonicles is about chronicling my small life where even
if there isn't a specific photo or video of an event, I decided to
screen cap that piece of the blog to add along with the screen capture
of the info email and make this short video to document. If ever I find
photos or videos that anyone else took at this volunteer event, I may
make an updated/new video for it. For now, this is what I have.
Stargate Special Edition | Main Title and Prologue: Egypt https://youtu.be/rwkUtA_dXZA
These
are the two initial scenes of the Stargate Special Edition movie, the
Main Title and Prologue: Egypt. The Main Title scene is the same on both
the theatrical and special edition. the Prologue: Egypt scene was not
in the original theatrical version and is part of what makes this
special edition unique. Before sharing the two scenes separately, I had
originally intended to upload them together because it's what builds
excitement to watch the movie.
Although this is my last upload
about for the foreseeable future about the Stargate Special Edition DVD,
I hope you have enjoyed this look into this fantastic movie and its
special edition DVD. May this brief look encourage you to go get
yourself a copy of Stargate Special Edition DVD but most importantly
watch it.
The other videos I've made from the Stargate Special Edition DVD:
This
is the start of the Stargate movie, the Main Title/Scene 1, on the
Stargate Special Edition DVD. The soundtrack and the visual of the Ra
headpiece always gets gets me excited to watch the movie. Even as I
extracted this for this post I couldn't help but watch it again.
You
may notice some slight skipping on the video which I believe is due to
having been in storage for a bit. Nonetheless, it is still enjoyable to
watch.
The other videos I've made from the Stargate Special Edition DVD:
On this video I go through the Stargate Special Edition DVD Scene Index menu.
There are 54 scenes to select from which are broken down into sets of four, except the last set which is the last two scenes. Here you see me first go through that main scene index menu. I then go back to select each set which brings you to the available scenes to choose from. The scenes that make up the 9 minutes of additional footage on this Stargate Special Edition DVD Dare denoted in the selectable scenes with a yellow border and titled Special Edition.
00:00 Stargate Special Edition 00:14 DVD Start Menu 00:20 Scene Index Menu 00:35 1-4 Main Title, Prologue: Egypt, Discovery 1928, Dr. Jackson's Lecture 00:42 5-8 Catherine's Offer, O'Neil, Cover Stone, Stellar Breakthrough 00:47 9-12 The Stargate, Opening the Gate, Probe on Soldiers, On the Team 00:50 13-16 The Fossil, Good Luck Charm, Going Through, "What a Rush" 00:55 17-20 The Other Side, No Way Back, Base Camp, Tracks 01:00 21-24 Mining Camp, Meeting Kasuf, Return to the City, Sandstorm 01:08 25-28 Like A Chicken, Sha'Uri, "How Hard Could It Be?", Arrival of Ra 01:12 29-32 Anubis, Smoking Buddies, Language Lesson, Ra Awakens 01:16 33-36 Looking for Jackson, Ancient History, Back to the Pyramid, Captured 01:20 37-40 Audience with Ra, Punishment, Jackson Reborn, Execution 01:25 41-44 Escape, Shelter from the Storm, A Hurry to Die, Ra's Wrath 01:29 45-48 Husband's Work, Look at Your Gods, Sneaking In, Aerial Attack 01:35 49-52 Seven Minutes, Darkest Hour, Egyptian Cavalry, The End of Ra 01:39 53-54 Goodbyes, Ent Titles 01:46 Back to the DVD Start Menu
The other videos I've made from the Stargate Special Edition DVD:
Stargate Special Edition | DVD Start Menu, Cast and Crew
On
this video I go through the Stargate Special Edition DVD start menu to
then select the Cast and Crew option. I do a quick view of all the
available cast and crew then go back and select each one to go through
their info. The info available for each is their biography and
filmography.
Below the time stamp if you'd like to jump to each:
00:00 Stargate Special Edition 00:15 DVD Start Menu 00:25 Cast and Crew Menu 00:47 Kurt Russell 01:20 James Spader 01:41 Jaye Davidson 01:53 John Diehl 02:09 French Stuart 02:21 Christopher Fields 02:29 Derek Webster 02:37 Mili Avital 02:49 Roland Emmerich 02:59 Dean Devlin 03:06 Mario Kassar 03:16 Joel B Michaels 03:25 Oliver Eberle 03:47 Back to the DVD Start Menu
The other videos I've made from the Stargate Special Edition DVD:
These are the production notes as presented on the Stargate Special Edition DVD.I selected the Production Notes option from the menu after allowing the DVD Start Menu audio to play once completely. After going through the production notes I went back to the main menu.
I initially thought of adding a snippet of the audio from the intro of the movie itself because the production notes have no audio while you scroll through to read them, but decided to keep it as is because the sharing of this is intended to be as close as possible as if you are playing it on your own DVD player connected to the television.
Although you can paus the video to read the production notes, I've typed them up below:
Production Notes
Even in film school, Roland Emmerich fantasized about directing a science-fiction film set against the background of the ancient pyramids of Egypt. Ten years later when he cast Dean Devlin to act in Moon 44, Emmerich realized one of the pieces he needed had materialized.
Devlin was a writer as well as an actor. Because of their friendship and mutual admiration on Moon 44, Emmerich brought Devlin into his company, Centurion Film Productions. Devlin had a sci-fi project of his own min, one that he described as "Lawrence of Arabia in Outer Space."
Almost simultaneously the tow partners saw a retrospect of Egyptian Epic, including The Ten Commandments, El Cid, and Spartacus. The moderator of the event was Charlton Heston, who said films like those were far too expensive to make today. Challenged, the duo began writing Stargate.
The adventure caught the imagination of Le Studio Caanal +, who along with its French parent company, Canal +, had helped finance several films, including Cliffhanger and Terminator 2: Judgement Day. Le Studio Canal + brought the project to Executive Producer Mario Kassar, and Stargate launched.
Stargate took months of careful preparation by a team of conceptual artists unrivaled in the industry. Conceptual designer Patrick Tatopolous came aboard to create the looks of the alien life forms. Production designer Hernert Gross assembled a team to create the designs for sets, including landscapes, vehicles and props for the palace.
Before production commenced, Peter Mitchell Rubin, who had created a computerized system of storyboarding, spent weeks turning blueprints, sketches and verbal descriptions into realistic images. With the computer Rubin provided filmmakers with three-dimensional storyboards that could display depth of focus and lighting.
In such a way, Rubin placed cameras in "sets" that had not even been built. Next he added his team's renderings of the characters in action to composite. The results astonished the filmmakers. Said Devlin: "It was almost as if we had a test shoot of the film before we had started filming."
Costume designer Joseph Porro had the daunting task of clothing thousands of people for a story that spans ten centuries. With no research available on fashion in 8,000 BC, Porro simply had to guess. "I don't know if it's accurate," he admits, "but I hope it's pleasing to the eye." Porro's costume designs for Abydos had to blend the style of ancient Egypt with the unknown of something Alien. The problem emerged that nowhere in the world could he find these material. Consequently Porro's team set out to make everything by hand.
For the slave population in the city of Nagada, Porro and his staff manufactured four-to-five thousand garments all inspired by those of ancient Bedouins. The costumes of Ra's palace required a different approach: airbrushes, latex paints, and intricate embroidery were applied to bilks, linens and velvets to give the fabrics an otherworldly effect.
Porrod ornately embellished palace costumes with hand-made beads and jewels. He and his team created every piece of jewelry as an original; they individually designed every bead, every scarab and every ornament. Porro even sculpted crude sandstone versions of the jewelry for wear by the film's many extras.
No ordinary soundstage had enough capacity to hold the magnificent main chamber of Ra's Palace; so the filmmakers decided to build the chamber themselves. It found home in the same cavernous come in Long Beach, Californie, that had once housed the famous Spruce Goose. The completed set measured over 300 feet long, 60 feet wide and 40 feet high, and was sculpted, engraved, painted and polished in its entirety.
A rare tool known as an "anarouter" created the engraved hieroglyphics. Ordinarily used for sing-making, the machine was able to do the engraving of 100 workers in one day. One of only nine in the world, the anarouter utilized in Stargate marks the first-time ever use of such a machine in film.
After scouting locations in the United States and Mexico, Emmerich and veteran location manager, Ken Fix, chose a barren are surrounding Yuma, Arizona. This area would serve as the desert landscaping for both planets. Chosen not only fir its vast sand dunes, Yuma had the good fortune to be in close proximity to Los Angeles.
Beyond temperatures of more than 125 degrees, the desert locale produced enormous hurdles. Tons of equipment needed transport across soft surfaces. For this feat the filmmakers employed a hone-combed, rubber-like material called "geoweb." When rolled onto the sand and wetted down, the geoweb formed an instant road.
Keeping the sand dunes pristine during a day of shooting proved nightmarish. The slightest mar or footprint meant the dune lost its perfect look. To make matter worse, the film shot during the height of dune buggy season. Crews were often forced to move to another dune to avoid capturing tracks on camera.
Crews also combated "sand prints" by using giant jet fans and helicopters to blow sand back to its original condition. In the end nature demanded a less technological solution, and a brigade of persons with brooms-dune sweepers-were kept on constant call.
Filming for the Giza dig site and 8,000 BC locations completed at the Ft. Yuma Indian Reservation. From there the filmmakers moved to Imperial Valley's Buttercup Valley, where they battled dust, scorpions and rattlesnakes. In the end the full crew numbers approximately 450 people, and the full cast contains over 15, 000 extras.
Due to the extreme heat of the region, costume and make-up departments were required to arrive on set at 4:00 AM before temperatures soared. In an effort to keep hydrated, crew, cast and extras found themselves consuming between 12,000 and 15,000 gallons of water each day. To keep the beverages cold, the producers brought between 8,000 and 12,000 pounds of ice on set every day.
to create the unique language spoken in Stargate, the filmmakers called on the expertise of Stuart Tyson Smith, PH.D., a research associate at the Institute of Archeology at the Fowler Museum of Cultural History. Smith linguistically assembled the form ancient Egyptian could have become after thousands of years.
James Spader, whose character is a linguist as well as an Egyptologist, found Smith invaluable as a dialect coach and technical advisor. For his part, Kurt Russel quipped, "I quickly went over the script and said, 'now wait a minute, I don't have to say a word of this ever, do I?'"
The actors had a great time on the set. "Roland runs a fun set, and I think that's an important aspect of making a movie," said Russell. Regarding Russell, Spader said, "If you're going out to the middle of the desert and you want to keep your head, he's a great guy to have along."
Principal photography completed the last week of December 1993. Phase two began with a model shoot in the Santa Clarita stages. During this time a 6.6 degree earthquake rocked the studios. Luckily no one was filming, but the earthquake leveled the stage and destroyed several models, causing a shooting delay of several weeks.
These are the names of the two new playlist sections I created for the No Tan Diario Chronicles YouTube Channel. If you remember, I'd previously wrote about creating additional, Future Playlists, that may help me eliminate the clutter. Most of the new playlist will be part of that process. A few of the new playlists to be created will be to help re-organize some of my past videos into more specific categories with the idea that they will better fit into them, specially as I make new videos. Some of the videos may have some slight overlap with other playlist.
I haven't created any new videos for them yet because I decided to first go through previous videos that fit the categories and updating them to each. Most of them were in the Asi Es La Vida playlist, which is the playlist that encompasses videos & photo collages that do not fit into any other of my specific playlists and may include a multitude of categories: #AsiEsLaVida, #Life, #Family, #pets, #Travel, #Festivals, #Garden, & miscellaneous.
Each playlist section will contain multiple playlist categories and will be updated on this post as they come to fruition.
This playlist is organized by upload date, featuring Videos & Photo Collages of bits of printed history. Clippings and Excerpts from Magazines, Books, Newspapers, News Clippings, Comics, Pamphlets, etc., and that are not related to my other playlist categories.
This playlist is organized by upload date, featuring Videos & Photo Collages celebrating my collection of bags that held my things and my memories. Bags, Tote Bags, Backpacks, Grocery Totes, etc.
This playlist is organized by upload date. It features Videos & Photo Collages related to branded merchandise, freebies, souvenirs, and branded items I've received throughout the years.
This
playlist is organized by upload date. It features Videos & Photo
Collages of the Small things that made big statements on jackets, bags,
lanyards, and more. Think Buttons, Stickers, Patches, Corsages, Pins,
Badge Buddies, lapels, and more.
This playlist is organized by oldest to newest date of witchy event. It features Videos & Photo Collages related to my magickal past, present, and possible future. 🧹 My witchy corner if you will.
This playlist is organized by upload date. It features some of the items that have dressed up my life. Mostly Shirts and t-shirts, Hats, Socks, Clothes, ties, and others.
***2026-08-19
Update: Added the Paper Trails playlist. Also, about a week or so ago
added the Mystical Magick playlist but forgot to add the update date
note.
Vertical version of the compilation of the four audio tracks we made using audio loops in 2023. For this version we modified the titles so they would fit, used transitions between the tracks, and has bit more movement due to wanting each corresponding track image seen in their entirety, then zooming in to fill the screen as the audio plays.
These were our first tracks made using audio loops we acquired with commercial rights as we dove into creating our own audio for our videos. We decided to make the compilation to give you an insight into our headspace at the time.
The first three tracks were created as we loosely played with audio loops. The fourth track, Winter Solstice Wonderland, was created with a bit more of a thought process because we had prompted the creation of several AI generated images that would celebrate/feature the Winter Solstice and made the track to fit that theme. We made and uploaded a version with the images as is and another zooming into them.
Audio: "My First Attempt at a Fantasy Zone, Fantasy Zone Argument Explodes, Clunky Fantasy Intro, and Winter Solstice Wonderland - The Track" all by Amalgam Creative Arts
